Parade float in Indiana town depicts Donald Trump executing Hillary Clinton by electric chair: it 'was all for laughter'

Aurora, Ind. officials said they had no part in reviewing floats for the town's annual parade.

An Indiana man entered a float in his town's annual parade featuring someone dressed as Donald Trump flipping the switch on a caricature of Hillary Clinton while sitting in an electric chair — and he said it was all for laughs.

The controversial float emblazoned with Trump campaign signs also portrayed Barack Obama as an Easter Island statue in blackface.

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Some residents reacted in horror at the float, which appeared in the annual Farmers Fair Parade on Saturday in Aurora, Indiana, a town of roughly 3,700 residents just west of Cincinnati.

"For us to be in 2016 and have our president depicted as an Easter Island statue in blackface, which doesn't even make any sense, but it's just racist as can be," resident Jackie Reynolds told WCPO.

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"Who thinks this is something to laugh at or be proud of? This is disgusting," fumed Penny Britton, whose Facebook post about the float stirred up the firestorm. "Who thinks this is appropriate for a fair parade where children, some of them minorities and girls, are marching and playing instruments and watching?" she wrote.

Residents are calling for more scrutiny in the process of reviewing floats admitted in the parade. The annual festival, whose theme is "Celebrating the Past, Embracing the Future," is sponsored by the Aurora Lions Club, according to their website.

The club said that the float "does not reflect" their views and regrets displaying it, in a statement on their site. "We hope the political circus of this year's election stays with the national media," the statement read.

The city of Aurora told WLWT in a statement that officials have "no involvement in selecting float participants."

"The imagery portrayed by the float is simply not consistent with the values of our citizens or who we want to be as a city," the statement read.

This isn't the first time Trump supporters have threatened the former Secretary of State with allusions to capital punishment for her role in Benghazi for her private email server scandal.

In July, Trump advisor state Rep. Al Badasaro (NH-R), said that Clinton "should be put in a firing line and shot for treason," during an interview on the "Jeff Kuhner Show," prompting a Secret Service investigation.